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Title: LINUX Kernal Internals by Harold Bohme, Mirko Dziadzka, Ulrich Kunitz, Robert Magnus, Dirk Verworner, Michael Beck, Linus Torvalds ISBN: 0201877414 Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 15 July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.81 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.52
Rating: 2
Summary: not a teaching book
Comment: I don't think this book teaches the Linux kernel at all. The writing is hard to understand and there is a total lack of examples. Some times they would pull out pieces of Linux source code and call that an example. At other times they would give you a theoretical three paragraph discussion and call that an example. I guess technically they did give an example, but those examples don't teach because they are too hard. Books are suppose to give easy examples that get progressively harder instead of dumping the real thing at you right-a-way.
The book is really for people who already knows Linux or Unix and need to look up what a particular function do (because Kernel function are not in the "man" pages) The only good part about this book is that the index is very complete so you can look up an unknown function quickly - that's basically why I kept the book. But as a teaching device - which was what I was looking for - the book fails completely.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for programmers familiar with Unix
Comment: Since I had already taken a course in university on Unix Kernel Architecture, I found this book a good introduction to the Linux implementation. If you can pick up concepts quickly you may find the book adequate on its own, otherwise get another general Operating Systems textbook to help you with things like understanding virtual memory, interrupt service routines, drivers and networking concepts.
The author's goal seems to be to introduce you to a good portion of the kernel source code. Understanding the kernel source tree, the build process and the code itself is much easier once you have read the first few chapters of the book.
The book avoids teaching you or even using examples in assembly language. This may annoy you if you know assembly language, or thrill you if you don't. For example, the extremely time-critical interupt service routines, which are written in hand-optimized assembler, are explained with some C-like pseudo code.
Although the book is quite short, it is well written, and it explains the Linux kernel implementation in sufficient detail. Although it was intentional, some readers may wish that the book included more explanation of the concepts before the implementation is introduced.
A suggested companion text would be Andrew Tannenbaum's "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation".
Rating: 3
Summary: A liitle out-date, but still a good book for OS concepts
Comment: This book is a little outdated today as it covers the older 2.0 kernels. If you are reading this book and following it up on a 2.4 kernel you will find many changes.The book does contain the source code of the reference kernel it is written on.
I suppose its time a new updated edition is published.
However the commentry on a older kernel does not reduce the value of this book. It is a good book to understand the OS concepts as applied to Linux kernel.This book can be a good companion to Silberschatz/Galvin's "Operating Systems Concept" in a college course.
Another value of this book is purely historical, in case someone desires to compare older and newer kernels with a high-level view.
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Title: Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition by Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, Allesandro Rubini ISBN: 0596000081 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition) by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati ISBN: 0596002130 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Understanding the LINUX Kernel: From I/O Ports to Process Management by Daniel Pierre Bovet, Marco Cesati ISBN: 0596000022 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Advanced Linux Programming by Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham, Alex Samuel, Jeffery Oldham ISBN: 0735710430 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 11 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing by Craig Hollabaugh ISBN: 0672322269 Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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